Meet the World’s Most Terrifying Caterpillar

When you think of a caterpillar, you probably picture a cute, chubby little critter, chewing on leaves and dreaming of becoming a butterfly. But the whip-fast, razor clawed Hawaiian inchworm is here to challenge those stereotypes.

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Sources:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00218529

Hawaiian Carnivorous Caterpillar — Eupithecia

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0013873814010114
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/309/5734/575
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12599/abstract